“Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary. — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words,… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with prostitution. I looked it up in the dictionary as a child, and I remember hearing that Jesus… — Craig Seymour Copy Share Image
me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
¡Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a… — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Copy Share Image
Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning.… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Then idiots talk…of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. And that's kind… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“Far from dampening Araki’s interest, the discovery that his dictionary wasn’t perfect only fanned his ardor. If some definitions weren’t quite successful,… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's… — John Prine Copy Share Image
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
